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  • The Electric State

  • Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years

    ★★★½

  • Spotlight

    ★★★★

  • Lilo & Stitch

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  • The Electric State

    The Electric State

    The filmic embodiment of "not enough", despite a rumoured budget of somewhere between $275m and $320m: the moments of levity aren't funny enough, the scenery is neither starkly beautiful nor dystopian enough so the expansion of the world Simon Stålenhag built is not significant enough, the post-war world is not nearly dark or even expanded on enough so while the consequences of said war are said to be devastating they somehow don't seem to matter enough.

    The lead actors, the…

  • Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years

    Bill Burr: Drop Dead Years

    ★★★½

    The main difference between Bill Burr and his many very loud and very popular contemporaries, at this point, is that there is a noteworthy "after" the resorting to the pretty standard-fare jokes about men and women and sexuality and whatever other low-hanging fruit you can think of. While most of his friends seem to use their platforms, all podcasts of course, to amplify the worst humanity has to offer, Burr actually takes the time to figure himself out in front…

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  • Confess, Fletch

    Confess, Fletch

    ★★★

    It’s truly an indictment of Hollywood and the whole  entertainment-industrial complex that Jon Hamm hasn’t been given the chance to make a dozen films like this already, where he’s just charming and sarcastic and spends his time trying to solve a vague problem.

  • Bullet Train

    Bullet Train

    ★★★½

    I’ll leave the “a bloody thrilling ride”-like punny headlines to the experts and just say that this was a very good time, perhaps enhanced a little bit by being virtually alone in an early-day IMAX screening.